TD buying Greystone today for eight hundred million dollars is a big deal for Regina with uncertain consequences. One thing is for certain, there are a whole bunch more very rich people in Regina. Greystone was employee-owned. Let's hope most of them they stick around and invest in Regina.

TD buying Greystone today for eight hundred million dollars is a big deal for Regina with uncertain consequences. One thing is for certain, there are a whole bunch more very rich people in Regina. Greystone was employee-owned. Let's hope most of them they stick around and invest in Regina.

Not familiar with Greystone so I had to look it up. Today's report suggests they are going to keep offices here but who knows what the song and dance will be once the deal actually goes through later this year.

Not familiar with Greystone so I had to look it up. Today's report suggests they are going to keep offices here but who knows what the song and dance will be once the deal actually goes through later this year.

The big issue is the loss of a true head office and all the spin off that goes with that, from philanthropy to visiting consultants to very high paying senior exec jobs. We have seen this movie before in Regina many times. (Crown Life, Ipsco, Wascana Energy, Viterra, etc.)

The big issue is the loss of a true head office and all the spin off that goes with that, from philanthropy to visiting consultants to very high paying senior exec jobs. We have seen this movie before in Regina many times. (Crown Life, Ipsco, Wascana Energy, Viterra, etc.)

I guess Robert Vanderhooft wanted his golden handshake.

I think Greystone will maintain a sizable office in Sask in the short-term because of the investments here. But given that Greystone already has a Toronto office it is inevitable that over the next decade Greystone will be a Toronto company with a small branch office here.

^^ yeah they were grading and staking the area yesterday. I believe there's a grocery store (Coop?) going here and 6-8 other small business in 2 strip mall style buildings. Don't think anything has been announced about those yet.

This addition of parking downtown will do literally nothing for surface parking.

Probably in the short term it may do nothing. However, in the long run, it is likely a positive. It definitely does not make additional surface parking more attractive. If anything, it adds additional capacity to a system that, to your point, likely doesn't need it.

It makes additional surface lots a bit less likely going forward.

I don't even need to read your posts to know you are complaining about something. If you made a bit of an effort to be balanced in your comments, you might find you're not the biggest loser in every social encounter of which you are regrettably a part.

As for the little pocket park... I can see it being used by the co-operators employees. Victoria Park (or any other green space) is a little too far away, so it would definitely be a good break/lunching spot. Compared to the cement and piss-poor planter boxes that current inhabit the space, more greenery is a definite improvement.

Honestly it's kind of a typical office building fronting most other cities have, but Regina has been lacking. Useable space at the base of a "tower" no matter how small is hard to view as a negative.

If you made a bit of an effort to be balanced in your comments, you might find you're not the biggest loser in every social encounter of which you are regrettably a part.

Let me know when you contribute something of note.

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As for the little pocket park... I can see it being used by the co-operators employees. Victoria Park (or any other green space) is a little too far away, so it would definitely be a good break/lunching spot. Compared to the cement and piss-poor planter boxes that current inhabit the space, more greenery is a definite improvement.

Honestly it's kind of a typical office building fronting most other cities have, but Regina has been lacking. Useable space at the base of a "tower" no matter how small is hard to view as a negative.

It's a negative when it's tiny and unusable and a poor trade off for a parkade which would otherwise not be allowed. Nobody wants to sit in a garbage park that's 15 feet from one of the busiest roads in the city.

It's a negative when it's tiny and unusable and a poor trade off for a parkade which would otherwise not be allowed. Nobody wants to sit in a garbage park that's 15 feet from one of the busiest roads in the city.

It doesn't seem to stop people in bigger cities with busier streets...

I used to work there and still know a fair few people at the Co-operators, and they would definitely go to a pocket park on breaks/at lunch for a change of scenery.

Honestly though, this is the kind of thing most larger cities require as part of a tower's design, so the fact that one is being included in a bit of a redevelopment is a good thing, regardless of how "busy" a Regina street is (which is pretty light compared to larger cities).